William Monahan Quotes About Drama

Quotes about: Drama

• There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.

  William Monahan

  Running, Drama, Play

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• I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Writing, London

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• I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Form, Vulgar

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• Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Odds, Actors

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• I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.

  William Monahan

  Real, Drama, Writing

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• They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors are habituated to sometimes having to save a picture on the floor because it's usually part of their job, but they'd rather have a writer doing his job, so that they can do theirs. But I like nothing better than working with actors.

  William Monahan

  Jobs, Drama, Games

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